US Patent Issued to Snap on July 28 for "Neighborhood-based link prediction for recommendation systems" (New York, Arizona, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,308, issued on July 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Neighborhood-based link prediction for recommendation systems" was invented by Hao-Ming Fu (New York), Patrick Poirson (Gilbert, Ariz.), Kwot Sin Lee (Weehawken, N.J.) and Chen Wang (Great Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recommendation system implements a linkage (connectivity) score learning algorithm for user-item interaction bipartite graphs that is combined with a lightweight iterative degree update process in the bipartite graph where the degrees used in the scoring formula are updated several times to exploit local graph structures without an...